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PROOF POINTS: How Covid narrowed the STEM pipeline

The Hechinger Report

Even the scores of students at Catholic schools, who otherwise weathered the pandemic well, plummeted in eighth grade math. Yet another explanation is a psychological one. Catholic school students tend to be wealthier; their families can afford private school tuition.

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A Fifth of Students at Community College Are Still in High School

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Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology.

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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

The Hechinger Report

A cross-section of a brain scan sits on the desk of Tim Odegard, a professor of psychology at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. If diagnosis and help still remain elusive, they can pay for private neuropsychological exams , which can cost thousands of dollars.

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The new homeschoolers: More diverse, very committed

The Hechinger Report

The family, who lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, has chosen a hybrid home school model – half a day of distance learning with the local school and half a day of activities and lessons arranged at home. “I Fatima Siddiqui always knew she wanted to home-school her kids. They’re average.”.

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How flawed IQ tests prevent kids from getting help in school

The Hechinger Report

For generations, intelligence tests have played an outsize role in America, helping at times to control who can join the military and at what rank; who can enroll in the nation’s most elite private schools, and even who can be executed under federal law. It even happens in preschool, this withholding of academic supports.”

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Rival studies shed light on the merits of a Montessori education

The Hechinger Report

The results are mixed: promising for preschool, not so promising for older students in high school. In the October, 2017, preschool study , published in Frontiers in Psychology, six researchers looked at two Montessori schools in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, two peer-reviewed studies were published using this methodology.

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The newest advantage of being rich in America? Higher grades

The Hechinger Report

Troubling, but not surprising, said Richard Weissbourd, director of the Human Development and Psychology program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Private schools in particular, Weissbourd said, “to be attractive to parents, need to be able to tout how many of their students went to selective colleges.